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Technology is built and used within certain social and historical circumstances and its form and functioning will bear the imprint of those conditions.

— Wanda Orlikowski

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Two views on the scope of technology have pervaded (and shaped) studies of technology, reflecting the different claims to generalizability that researchers have intended with their work. The one set of studies has focused on technology as "hardware," that is, the equipment, machines, and instruments that humans use in productive activities, whether industrial or informational devices.

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